SAMUEL ROUSSEAU

In A Few Ounces Over at Parker's Box, Samuel Rousseau presented a series of works that fully utilized his highly developed ability for digging behind the façade of the life we live in, in order to turn our experience of things on its head, allowing us to see some of the poetry that exists under our noses, if only we'd look. It's important to realize that Samuel Rousseau's illusionist practices have little to do with a quest for cheap thrills or easy laughs.

While his work frequently flirts with the brinks of kitsch or bad taste, he remains in full control of the contexts his work orchestrates, and ultimately reveals much of the ironies of our own Western existence.

Hijacked domesticity is something that runs through much of the artist's work, which includes embroidered tattooed doilies, video wallpaper, "blazing" stained glass fireplaces and video inserts in unexpected places-shower drains, washing machines and found tapestries so that we might simultaneously feel very much at home, but perhaps not always entirely at ease.